#41
- Contributors
- Aaron Timms, Jake Romm, Jael Goldfine, Charlie Dulik, Thomas de Monchaux, Marianela D’Aprile, Douglas Spencer, Izzy Kornblatt, Zain Khalid, Hannah Williams, Alana Pockros, Christopher Hawthorne, Claudia Ross, Eric Schwartau, Samuel Medina, Zack Hatfield, Greta Rainbow, Aron Chilewich, Michael Nicholas, Marco Roth, Nicolas Kemper, Emma Schneider, Peter Lucas, Ian Volner, A. Ratt, & Sarah Chekfa
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Managing Editor
- Chloe Wyma
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Associate Publisher
- Nicholas Raap
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Digital Director
- Seth Thompson
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C. Suchara
- Illustrators
- Kristin Tata & Jonathan Rosen
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- Emma Schneider, Michael Piantini, Tess Pollok, & Sajina Shrestha
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- Nick Murray
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- Don Armstrong
Articles
As long as this great commuter-train parade ground remains open to the skies, the streets ringing it allow us to envision a different future.
A visit to the Astor Place Wegmans confirms we are, now and forever, among the Etruscans
(and also stuck in the ’90s).
New York University’s John A. Paulson Center announces the triumph of a new civilization: thrusting, dismissive, cruel.
The warm, comforting glow was unmistakable.
Reviews
Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980, organized by Ana Elena Mallet and Amanda Forment, is on view at the Museum of Modern Art through September 22.
A shockingly unfeeling and vague idea of home
On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture by Mark Foster Gage. University of Minnesota Press, 80 pp., $10.
For Mark Foster Gage, the main issue with suburbanization is its ugliness, for which the alleged failings of architectural education are held responsible.
The Architecture of Influence: The Myth of Originality in the Twentieth Century by Amanda Reeser Lawrence. University of Virginia Press, 280 pp., $50.
Is the myth of “pure originality” still a worthy target of criticism in 2024?
What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Silvio Lorusso. Set Margins’, 352 pp., $24.
Designers, Silvio Lorusso stresses, have not properly plumbed the depths of their own uselessness.
The Murder Factory: Life and Work of H. H. Holmes, First American Serial Killer by Alexandra Midal. Sternberg Press, 96 pp., $20.
In his fanaticism for capitalist optimization, H. H. Holmes was the equal or better of any industrial baron.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka. Doubleday, 304 pp., $28.
Algorithms are more our mirrors than our captors.
Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by A. Krista Sykes. Bloomsbury, 278 pp., $115.
His supreme, tweedy confidence was softened with a vulnerability and kind of underdog spirit.
Walls, Windows and Blood was on view at Lehmann Maupin in New York City from February 8 through March 9.
harmony is fraught was on view at Regen Projects in Los Angeles from January 11 through March 3.
Once radical in their challenge to religious and monarchical power, the assumptions undergirding the liberal humanist tradition—and its artwork—now feel
entrenched and flawed.
Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow by Deyan Sudjic. MIT Press, 320 pp., $40.
Stalin’s Architect: The Rise and Fall of Boris Iofan by Vladimir Sedov. DOM Publishers, 304 pp., $40.
With each new draft—one more improvident than the last—Boris Iofan allowed the Palace of the Soviets to float higher into an illusory realm.
